Saddle



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT CALDWELL, OF NEAR NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE.

SADDLE.

Specification of Letters Patent N0. 5,872-, dated October 24, 1848.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, ROBERT CALDWELL, of

near Nashville, in the county -of DavidsO-nv and State of Tennessee, have invented an Improved Riding-Saddle, and that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the principle or character which distinguishes it from all other things before known and of the usual manner of making, modifying, and using the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which represents said improvements and forms a part of this description.

The nature of my invention consists inthe construction, arrangement, and attachment of the cantle, so as to allow it to have a spring and in strengthening the side bars at that point, and also in the manner of fastening the pads to the tree without nailing.

The pommel is made inany style to suit the taste of the manufacturer, either of the English, Spanish, or French pattern, and the side bars are also like those of an ordinary saddle, but they are prolonged beyond the cantle backward, two or three inches, as shown at (da) in the drawing. The cantle is not aliiXed directlyto the side-bars, but instead thereof the side bars are braced and held firmly in place by an iron bar (6,) which is bent into proper form not to in'v jure. the back of the horse, andV is situated an additional support being made to this connection by the angleI irons (e.) the cantle is thus joined to the side bars; it is held up above the side bars in its proper position by means of o or other shaped spring (a) that are fastened at their lower ends to the side bars, and have the cantle rest on their upper ends; or the cantle can be at once attached to the springs without `the irons above named the lcantle is thus rendered elastic in its motion, and ,conforms to the webbing (71,)0f the saddle, which is applied in the ordinary way. The'pad has on it what I denominate pocket loops (7c, c,) which fit over the projections (en) on the rear enus of the side bars, and over the fore point of the tree; these hold the pad'in place without nails.

Having thus fully described my improved spring saddle, what I claim therein as new,

andfor which I desire to secure Letters Patf tree in the mannerdescribed, by means of the pocket loops, and without the aid of nails, as herein set forth.

ROBT. CALDWELL.

Witnesses: v e

CHL. LAINER, l. MGEWEN. 

